Architecture of the ring formed by the tubulin homologue FtsZ in bacterial cell division

Architecture of the ring formed by the tubulin homologue FtsZ in bacterial cell division

Membrane constriction is a prerequisite for cell division. The most common membrane constriction system in prokaryotes is based on the tubulin homologue FtsZ, whose filaments in E. coli are anchored to the membrane by FtsA and enable the formation of the Z-ring and divisome. The precise architecture...

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Main Authors: Piotr Szwedziak, Qing Wang, Tanmay A M Bharat, Matthew Tsim, Jan Löwe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2014-12-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
bacterial cytoskeleton
cytokinesis
cell division
C. crescentus
FtsZ
electron tomography
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/04601

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